Racer is a fun, arcade game developed by Tatem Games where you drive your car on a highway with overwhelming sense of speed. You simply touch the car with your finger and drag, the car will be where you drag your fingers, very easy. One thing you’ll have to worry about is dodging traffic and that’s where the core of fun begins.

There are 4 game modes in Racer – Normal, Hard, Slalom, and Career. Normal and Hard are self explanatory where you dodge oncoming traffic and stay alive for as long as you can. Slalom on the other hand is pretty much the same gameplay but you collect starts along the highway, this will help you boost your scores as it adds more points when you collect it. Lastly, Career Mode consists of 20 stages you have to beat. Collect a certain number of stars to beat a stage. You can unlock 5 more cars playing through this mode which have its own unique handling and responsiveness. Each car has its on engine sounds and appearances too, cool eh?

Let’s talk about the graphics and sound. Graphics is the smoothest I’ve seen on the iPhone. Cel-shaded graphics is clean and stylish. Fast and smooth framerates lived-up it its name. As for the sound, there’s no music here, folks but great sound effects that will make up for it.

One well-implemented addition to this game is online leaderboards. Nobody wants to race stunning speed and not have the world recognize it, right? Plus, you can connect it to your Facebook account so your friends and their friends’ friends and guarantee yourself as the fastest racer among the entire facebook network.

The reaction time will test even the quickest minds out there but there isn’t a whole lot of skill involved in Racer – just a enough, aside from seeing how absurdly long you can keep it going. Yet, Racer is indeed a fun game to play with its fast-paced gameplay although the name ‘Racer” is a bit misleading because this is not a racing game, it should have been ‘Racer Gone Reckless Driver’, I kid, I kid. This is a highly recommended title. Worth
every dime.